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The IT History Society wishes to acknowledge individuals who have made a noteworthy and out of the ordinary contribution to the information technology industry. Suggestions should be submitted by the community and not the individual. All submissions are subject for review by the IT Honor Roll Committee.

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Dr. Edward Seidel

A career computer scientist and physicist, he has received a number of awards for his work. His most noted achievements are in the field of numerical relativity, which involves...

Dr. Ramakrishnan Srikant

Dr. Ramakrishnan Srikant is a Principal Research Scientist at Google. He previously managed the Privacy Research group, part of the Intelligent Information Systems Research...

Professor Philip S. Yu

An American computer scientist and Professor of Information Technology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, he is known for his work in the field of data mining. He received...

Dr. M. Kenneth Oshman

Having grown up in Rosenberg, Texas, he attended Rice University where he graduated Summa Cum Laude receiving a BA and BS in Engineering. In 1962, he married his high school...

Dr. Willem (aka William) Louis van der Poel

Born in The Hague, he is a pioneering Dutch computer scientist, known for designing the ZEBRA computer. In 1950 he obtained an engineering degree in applied science at Delft...

Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg

Developed MP3 data format for compression of audio data; together with other researchers at Fraunhofer Institute at Erlangen: Professor at Technical University of Ilmenau

Dr. Joseph (J. C. R.) Carl Licklider

He was known simply as J.C.R. or "Lick" was an American computer scientist, considered one of the most important figures in computer science and general computing history.

Dr. Stephen W. Keckler

Steve Keckler joined NVIDIA in December 2009 and leads the Architecture Research Group. He is also Professor of both Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering at...

Leonid Anatolievich Levin

Levin independently discovered a theorem also proven by Stephen Cook. This NP-completeness theorem, often called the Cook-Levin Theorem, was a basis for one of the seven "...

Dr. John Impagliazzo

Dr. John Impagliazzo is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Hofstra University in New York. Impagliazzo has supported educational computing...

Mrs. Jean Bartik

She was born Betty Jean Jennings[1] in Gentry County, Missouri, in 1924 and attended Northwest Missouri State Teachers College, majoring in mathematics. In 1945, she was hired by...

Mr. Ken Kutaragi

The former Chairman and Group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI), the video game division of Sony Corporation, and current President and CEO of Cyber AI Entertainment. He...

Dr. Norbert Frištacký

Prof. Ing. Norbert Fri?tack?, PhD. was a "pioneer" of research and education in the field of computers and their use for us. He was one of the earliest pioneers in the field...

Professor Ellis L. Johnson

The Professor Emeritus and the Coca-Cola Chaired Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta,...

Dr. Peter G. Neumann

A researcher who worked on the Multics operating system in the 1960s, he edits the RISKS Digest columns for ACM Software Engineering Notes and Communications of the ACM. He...

Professor Hermann Kopetz

A Professor for Software Engineering and Real-Time Systems at the Vienna University of Technology since 1982, he received his Ph.D. in Physics "sub auspiciis praesidentis" from...

Mr. Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov

Alexey Pajitnov created Tetris with the help of Dmitry Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov in 1985. The game, first available in the Soviet Union, appeared in the West in 1986. Pajitnov...

Mr. Bobby Murphy

A Filipino-American billionaire businessman, he is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and co-founder of Snapchat along with Evan Spiegel, and Reggie Brown when they were students...

Dr. James (Jim) A. Brown

One of the computing world's leading authorities on array technology, he spent nearly 30 years at the center of IBM's array technology efforts. He was the inventor of and Manager...

Mr. Brian Pollard

During the 1950s, under his direction, the Gorton labs also researched magnetic amplifiers. Like most teams, they decided to abandon them when transistors improved. The Ferranti...

Dr. Gerd Binnig

A German physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope, he was born in Frankfurt am Main and played in the ruins of...

Mr. Dave Cochran

He spent 25 years at Hewlett-Packard, starting as a part-time Test Technician in 1956 and departing as a celebrated HP Engineer in 1981. Between those two years, he worked on a...

Mr. Thomas Alva Edison

An American inventor, scientist, and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and...

Mr. Samuel (Sam) Wyly

An American entrepreneur and businessman, philanthropist, and major contributor to conservative campaigns and candidates. In 2006, Forbes magazine estimated his net worth at $1.1...

Mr. Jacob (Jack) Goldman

An American physicist and former Chief Scientist, Chief Technical Officer, and Senior Vice President for Research and Development of Xerox Corporation. He established two of the...

Mrs. Ruth Teitelbaum (née Lichterman)

Born in Dallas, she was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer. She graduated from Hunter College with a B.Sc. in Mathematics. She was hired by the Moore School of...

Mr. Juan R. Rodriguez

Born in Santiago Cuba, his family moved to the United States in November of 1953 where his father became a translator in the U.N. He attended Bayside High School in Queens, New...

Professor Krishnendu (Krish) Chakrabarty

A Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, he is also a Chair Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, a Visiting...

Mr. Alan F. Shugart

Al Shugart started at IBM in 1951 and in 18 years made many key contributions to disk drive development and introductions. Joined Memorex 1n 1969 as VP of product development,...

Paul Gardener Allen

Allen co-founded Microsoft (initially "Micro-Soft") with Bill Gates in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1975, and began marketing a BASIC programming language interpreter.[7] In 1980,...

Mr. Michael 'Mike' Rubens Bloomberg

An American businessman, author, politician, and philanthropist. His net worth is estimated at US$ 53.4 billion, as of July 2017, ranking him as the 6th richest person in the...

Mr. Paul G. Miller

A 1948 Purdue graduate, he served on active duty with the U. S. Navy from 1943 until 1957. During the early 1950's, he directed work involving airborne fire-control systems,...

Mr. Keith Brown

He wrote the SSPI workbench tool, and has been the security columnist for MSDN Magazine since 1998.

Mr. George Barnard Grant

An American scientist, born in Maplewood, MA, he attended Bridgton Academy in Maine and the Chandler Scientific School at Dartmouth College before entering in 1869 the Lawrence...

Mr. Harry (Webb) McKinney

A management consultant with a primary focus on merger integration and leadership development, he has a wealth of experience in mergers, integrations and executive leadership,...

Dr. Jacob Ziv

From 1955 to 1959, he was a Senior Research Engineer in the Scientific Department Israel Ministry of Defense, and was assigned to the research and development of communication...

Dr. Martin Edward Hellman

Martin and Whitfield Diffie's paper New Directions in Cryptography was published in 1976. It introduced a radically new method of distributing cryptographic keys, which went far...

Mr. Raymond (Ray) John Noorda

U.S. computer businessman who CEO of Novell between 1982 and 1994. He also served as chairman of Novell until he was replaced in 1994.

Mr. Francis Wilton Reichelderfer

He presided over a revolutionary era in the history of the National Weather Service. From 1938 to 1963, he guided the organization through World War II and brought modern...

Mr. René Descartes

A French philosopher and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic, his influence in mathematics is equally apparent; the Cartesian coordinate system allowing...

Mr. Robert (Bob) William Taylor

Born in Dallas, Texas in 1932, the adopted son of a Methodist minister, he had an itinerant childhood, moving from parish to parish. He started at Southern Methodist University at...

Leonard Max Adleman

A theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California. He is known for being a co-inventor of the RSA (...

Mr. Charles F. Webb

Named an IBM Fellow in 2003, he has been with IBM in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., since 1983, and has worked on processor performance analysis, processor design and system design, all on...

Professor Harry Max Markowitz

An American economist, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990 while a professor of finance at Baruch College of the City University of New York. In...

Dr. Robert Clay Prim

An American mathematician and computer scientist, he was born in Sweetwater, Texas). He received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1941, and in 1949, he received his Ph...

Dr. Robin Keith Saxby

Born in Derbyshire, in central England, he was educated at Chesterfield Grammar School - a boys' grammar school. He had an electronics kit at the age of eight and a TV repair...

Mr. Barry Schrager

Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, he currently lives in Mountain View, Colorado where he is President of Xbridge Systems. He received his B.S. Degree in Physics from the...

Professor George Bernard Dantzig

Dantzig is known for his development of the simplex algorithm, an algorithm for solving linear programming problems[1], and his work with linear programming, some years after it...